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  • Surviving the Bosnian Genocide

    The Women of Srebrenica Speak

    by Selma Leydesdorff ...
    Translated by Kay Richardson ...
    In this "valuable oral history," women who survived the 1995 Srebrenica massacre speak of their lives before, during, and after the Bosnian war ( Publishers Weekly).In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some eight thousand Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica—the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide recounts the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sasha Pechersky

    Holocaust Hero, Sobibor Resistance Leader, and Hostage of History

    by Selma Leydesdorff ...
    Series series Memory and Narrative
    On October 14, 1943, Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a World War II death camp, Pechersky never received the public recognition he deserved in his home country of Russia. This story of a forgotten hero reveals the tremendous difference in memorial cultures between societies in ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Trauma

    Life Stories of Survivors

    by Selma Leydesdorff ...
    Traumatic experiences and their consequences are often the core of life stories told by survivors of violence. In Trauma: Life Stories of Survivors leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness that have caused trauma, the ways in which survivors remember, and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Memories of Mass Repression

    Narrating Life Stories in the Aftermath of Atrocity

    Edited by Selma Leydesdorff ...
    Memories of Mass Repression presents the results of researchers working with the voices of witnesses. Its stories include the witnesses, victims, and survivors; it also reflects the subjective experience of the study of such narratives. The work contributes to the development of the field of oral history, where the creation of the narrative is considered an interaction between the text of the ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Memory Cultures

    Memory, Subjectivity and Recognition

    Edited by Selma Leydesdorff ...
    Series series Memory and Narrative
    In recent years memory has attracted increasing attention. From analyses of electronic communication and the Internet to discussions of heritage culture, to debates about victimhood and sexual abuse, memory is currently generating much cultural interest. This interdisciplinary collection takes a journey through memory in order to contextualize this current "memory boom."Memory Cultures focuses on ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Trauma and Life Stories

    Edited by With Graham Dawson, Kim Lacy Rogers, Selma Leydesdorff ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
    In this volume leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness, the way in which survivors remember and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Interpreting Contentious Memory

    Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past

    by Edna Lomsky-Feder, Nicole Fox, Roberto Vélez-Vélez, Gary Alan Fine, Christopher Robertson, Cal Abbo, Sofya Aptekar, Claire Whitlinger, Amy Sodaro, Werner Bohleber, Carol A. Kidron, Selma Leydesdorff, Jacob Caponi, Fatma Müge Göçek ...
    Series series Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
    Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics.This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, trauma, war, nationalism, colonial occupation, and more, it highlights how our interpretations of contentious memories are ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • Meaning and Melancholia

    Life in the Age of Bewilderment

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative psychoanalytic thinking to various contemporary social, cultural and political themes.This book offers an incisive exploration of powerful trends within, and between, nations in the West over the past two hundred years. The author traces shifts in psychological forces and ‘frames of ... Read more

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  • Language and Identity

    An introduction

    by John Edwards ...
    Series series Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
    The language we use forms an important part of our sense of who we are - of our identity. This book outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups - ethnic, national, religious and gender - and the language varieties important to each group. What is a language? What is a dialect? Are there such things as language 'rights'? Must every national group have its own unique language ... Read more

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  • Why Men Rebel

    by Ted Robert Gurr ...
    Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 after a decade of political violence across the world. Forty years later, serious conflicts continue in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Ted Robert Gurr reintroduces us to his landmark work, putting it in context with the research it influenced as well as world events. Why Men Rebel remains highly relevant to today's violent and unstable world with its ... Read more

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  • Histories of Suicide

    International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World

    by John Weaver, David Wright ...
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